UNIT 5 Final version of Our eTwin magazine

After reading my peers' assessment I changed what  I understood  as the weaknesses of my draft. Here's my final version
 PROJECT Final Version: Our eTwin magazine
Name of the project: Our eTwin magazine
Language: English
Age of students: 11/12
Subjects: English as a foreign language, ICT
Participants: Three schools with groups of 20 students each.
ABSTRACT
In a virtual learning environment, the pupils share information about themselves,  improve their English language skills, communication, ICT skills and learn about partners’ culture.
GOALS
• To encourage pupils to communicate in English on real life topics.
• To gain sufficient ICT skills for internet communication and collaboration.
• To learn about other partners’ cultures.
• To make a collaborative magazine as a final product.
PROCESS
September/October - Preparations
• The founders of the project agree on topics (hobbies, sports, books, music and other fields of preteens’ interest
• Pupils create self-presentations using web tools (voki, powtoon, storyjumper), and presentations of their school (youtube, storyjumper, picture gallery…)
• After listening/reading info about their peers, pupils write and post / record/ ask in a chat session at least two more questions  to their peers asking for more information
November – Pets and toys
Forum
• Each student writes what pet they've got. The other groups ask questions about the pets and then write a short article about the pets. This way they practice asking questions in English and using the third person singular. After finishing the text, the owners of the pets add photos to match the text.
• Pupils from the partner school try to combine the picture with the text
• They can comment on the pictures and ask more questions.
December – Sports/ Christmas
• each school prepares a roleplay interview (youtube) with a sportsperson from their country. The partner school guesses who the sportsman is and do a quiz about that sportsperson
• Each student writes a Christmas card and share it on Twinspace

January/February
 Favourite school subjects survey, daily routines and free time.
• Students collaborate using the  Titanpad in order to create a survey about favourite subjects. It can be in the form of a poll or multiple choice activity. They use chat sessions to talk about their hobbies and activities and then the partner school presents  on a poster or padlet what they have heard.
March/ April
• Each student creates a digital postcard for the partner.

• Online quiz about our countries and towns.
May/June
• Teachers discuss the material  on the  Twinspace and decide what to put   in their joint magazine.


EXPECTED RESULTS
• A joint online magazine (concrete product)
• Friendship, communication after the project ended
• EFL skills gained
• Enhanced skills in ICT (collaborative tools)
• Photo Galleries
• Videos

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